A new study released yesterday by the Association of Housing and Development (ANHD) documented the…
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So the New York Daily News has issued a 5 minute challenge to see how…
Ever since the popular Citi Bike bike sharing program launched in NYC back in 2013, Welcome2TheBronx…
For the past 15 years Henry Weinstein, the owner of the landmark Beaux-Arts Old Bronx…
Make no mistake: New York City’s attempt to take away land dedicated and mapped as…
Between 2010 and 2016, the feeding frenzy by developers and investors of Bronx apartment buildings…
Bally’s gambling complex proposal at the former Trump Links in Throggs Neck relies on getting state approval to alienate parkland, but lacks local leaders’ support as the legislative session winds down. By…
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Watch: 92 Year Old Bronx Man Dancing Salsa
Yesterday during an excursion to Westchester, I ended up at Empire Casino in Yonkers (Don’t judge me) and my father introduced me to a 92 year old Bronx man who was born in Puerto Rico and came over on a ship in 1942. But what caught my attention was that this man DANCES salsa for…
NYC Parks Erases Promised Bronx Park Land From Website as City Prepares to Take It Away From The Public
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio prides himself on being a mayor for all boroughs and ran a campaign on the disparities of a “Tale of Two Cities” yet four years later since his campaigning began, we are no better in many aspects than under the previous Bloomberg administration. The city thought they could quietly take…
LGBTQ Pride Festival Coming to Third Avenue at The Hub
MELROSE—This July 2nd, The Bronx will be getting a new LGBTQ Pride event hosted by the Third Avenue Business Improvement District, the borough’s oldest shopping district and BID. Called the 1 Bronx Festival, its purpose is to “…promote inclusion,community, and dialogue and works toward a future without discrimination where all people have equal rights under…
What to Do In The Bronx According to Locals
Earlier this year, The New York Times declared the South Bronx as “One of 52 Places in The World to Visit” in a horrible blurb that spoke nothing of the true culture and beauty of our neighborhoods and instead focused on new businesses that were barely a year open and with no real roots to…
From The Bronx to the Tribeca Film Festival
About three weeks ago, I was contacted by one of the producers for a virtual reality documentary debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival called ‘Blackout’ They had come across my coming out story which I shared last year here and were interested in interviewing me for the project. According to the description at the film festival’s…
The Bronx’s Only Art Store Is Closing But Seeks To Return in 2018
WILLIAMSBRIDGE—When we first broke the story that The Bronx got its first full-fledged art store in 2015, Bronxites cheered for the arrival of Artist & Craftsman. The worker owned store quickly became a fixture for many Bronx organizations not just because they were the go to art store for our borough’s artistic community but more…
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